Coverage of Women Issues in the Pakistan’s Press: A Critical Analysis

The aim of this research is to thoroughly analyze the part multilingual dailies play in covering women issues in Pakistan. It is rooted from national newspapers, the Daily ‘Dawn’, the Daily ‘Jang’ and the Daily ‘Kawish’ in the year of 2011. The study explores to what extent of the violence against women and education issue of women is dealt by the sampled dailies. The study employed content analysis a quantitative research methodology during 1st January 2011 to 31st December 2011. The contents of the newspaper were measured in column per centimeter of the space of one year. For this research work three major dailies of three different languages, the Daily Dawn, the Daily Jang and the Daily Kawish were selected. In sum up, an elite class newspaper the Daily Dawn has published 562 very little issues of women and used 0.6 percent of the total capacity which is of 4353024 co./cm in the year of 2011. However, the Sindhi language newspaper, the Daily Kawish has used 2430 a little more issue of women and covered 2.3 percent of total capacity of 1678976 col./cm of this daily in 2011. To some extent, the Urdu language newspaper the Daily Jang has reported 1297 more number of women issues and used 1 percent of total capacity of 2423616 col./cm in one year. Hence, the result shows that Pakistani press gives a little bit space to issues of women rights. Although, the Daily Dawn and the Daily Kawish have reported more issues of violence against women but the Daily Jang (an Urdu language newspaper) has covered more education problems of women in its newspaper in the year of 2011.

Impact of Social Media Political Campaigns on Voting Behaviour: A Case Study of the Punjab

This research examines Pakistani youth’s political participation through social media. It evaluates the success of social media in molding the behaviours of voters during the general elections of 2013, also investigates the sharing of information instantly among masses through online interaction and to find out political mobilization for a change in political setup. In Pakistan, Social Media i.e. Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp, Imo, twitter and Viber; is penetrating among the population belonging to all age groups. Mindset of both males and females belonging to rural or urban locality linked with various professions is going to change with the use of internet and social media. The current study aimed to explore the influence of social media on the minds of above mentioned categories and their change of behaviour for voting in the general elections of 2013. Survey method was applied to collect the data from the population of Punjab belonging to different age groups, gender, profession, qualification and locality. Data collected through questionnaire tool was in the statistical package for social sciences to be evaluated. Significant results were obtained youth is involved in political process via social media to a great extent. Social media has changed the behaviour of voters in the general elections of 2013. Voters shared information that was obtained with the help of social media instantly among their fellows. Social media is influential in political mobilization and is responsible for bringing change in the political setup of Punjab. Significant correlations were found in variables i.e. gender, age, profession and locality of the participants. On the basis of findings, it can be concluded that social media is an effective tool for political awareness. Its use must be under the control of some rules and regulation. So that people should avoid some negative prorogation and rumours. There must be check and balance over sharing of information through social media.